Immigration Activists Prepare to Fight a "Timid" Biden After He Walks Back Key Promise Waiting for a bill won’t cut it, activists say—Biden could halt the cruel detention and deportation machine tomorrow. Maurizio Guerrero, In These Times, January 19, 2021 https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-joe-biden-deportations-immigration-deportation-moratorium . . . "It’s unclear if Congressional Democrats who rallied around demands like “Abolish ICE” during the Trump administration will push Biden for executive action or will wait to hash out legislation. Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus did not respond to In These Times’ request for comment.
"Valladares says immigrant rights groups will not take a “wait and see” approach with the Biden administration. “We have already experienced a Democratic administration that told us that everything would be okay, and we know that we should not trust that,” she says. Instead, expect the migrant rights community “to take actions and to take to the streets [in 2021] and beyond.” "Indeed, advocates did not wait for Inauguration Day to bring their concerns to Biden’s doorstep. On January 13, undocumented activist Jeanette Vizguerra (who has been living in sanctuary at the First Unitarian Society of Denver since 2015) accompanied a grassroots coalition at Biden’s transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del. The coalition demanded immediate action on immigration and an end to detentions and deportations. “I am here today to personally ask Joe Biden … to act immediately when he takes office next week,” said Vizguerra, who risks arrest by ICE just for stepping out of the church. “[Biden must] protect families like mine that have been hunted and terrorized simply for daring to exist in this ‘land of the free.’ ” -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5790): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5790 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80075968/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
